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roddy bell-shelton first shared their story with us in 2017. A lot has happened since then! They shared a quick update with us recently:
“Back in 2017 I was deeply hurt by the church and by God and vested my life in advocacy work for LGBTQ rights. Now I still do that, but the context has made a 180! I’m healing; I’m growing; I’m learning to love myself, trying to find my place on this topsy-turvy journey that we call life.
I now have a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and will be starting my second year of seminary as well as a congressional internship in the fall. I use ‘they/them’ pronouns and identify as a Queer, BIPOC little adult. My faith is progressive, anti-oppressive, Christian grounded in the principles of the Unitarian Universalist faith.
I truly believes that a vocation in ministry means being a voice to and for all those who can’t or haven’t yet found their voice; to those who acquire told they don’t possess a voice or that they don’t belong, yet still long for spiritual community and want someone, anyone, to say to them that they are not broken, but rather that society is broken and that they are welcome here jus
The name Roddy Bottum might not mean much, if anything, to you. To some, he’s most notable as the co-founding keyboardist in legendary metal trailblazers, Faith No More. To criminally few others, he may also be famous as the guitarist and vocalist in power pop offshoot, Imperial Teen. In July 1993, however, Roddy found himself in the spotlight in the rock world as its first openly gay star.
Despite what social media or current events might suggest, we live in comparatively enlightened times in 2018. LGBTQ issues are at the forefront of culture and media more than ever before, and as each successive generation grows more open-minded in its sympathy of sexuality, repressive, heteronormative attitudes increasingly become a thing of the past.
In the summer of 1993, however, there was a sum total of zero openly homosexual stars in the rock or metal world. That was until Roddy Bottum spoke to U.S. journalist Lance Noisy for a piece originally published by San Francisco magazine The Advocate, which was later adapted for print by Kerrang! in the UK (K! issue 444). Hard as it is to fathom in these liberal times 28 years later, the then 28-year-old Faith No More man’s revelation came
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Roderick “Roddy” Talbot
Published 5:00 am Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Roderick “Roddy” Talbot went to be with the Lord on June 20, 2025 after a lengthy illness.He passed peacefully, surrounded by his family.
Rod was born on May 8, 1936 in the small, rural collective of Manchester, La.When not at home, he enjoyed spending time with his maternal grandmother in Bell City, La.
After graduating from Iowa High School in 1954, Rod spent a brief time at McNeese State University, where he was a drum major.Then, in 1957, feeling led to serve his territory, Rod entered into service in the United States Army, where he was assigned to Army Intelligence in Germany.
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After his honorable discharge from the Army, Rod returned home and married his sweetheart, Eunice Rae Frazier.They lived for a time in Atlanta, Ga., where they had their first child, Dreabon Ann.They moved to Gonzales, La., and Rod returned to college, this period attending Louisiana State University.There, he earned bachelor’s degrees in Accounting and Interior Design.It was during these years that their second child, Stuart Gregory, was born.
After his graduation in Interior Design, Rod and his family moved to Cent
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